When posing a question, be sure and include a representative #hashtag. When answering a question, head your answer with the same tag.

An example:

Q. What is the true nature of the threat posed by the #UrethralAttackMaggots?

A. #UrethralAttackMaggots. Horror, horror, only horror, pure horror, unmitigated horror, constant and endless horror, for those who Fail To Follow Instructions. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341100#Comment_341100Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:44:44 -0500GreasemonkeyI need to have some quality colour prints made of my artwork. Can anyone recommend a printer in Toronto who does scans and giclee prints without charging the earth? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341104#Comment_341104Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:13:01 -0500allanaHave heard FANTASTIC things about Toronto ImageWorks but don't know a bit about their prices. I heard it's worth it, whatever it is. All secondhand info. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341107#Comment_341107Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:31:26 -0500GreasemonkeyCheers, I'll look them up! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341118#Comment_341118Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:35:01 -0500oldhatASK WHITECHAPEL -- the You Can Haz Help Now thread (Closes 21st October)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341219#Comment_341219
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341219#Comment_341219Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:50:08 -0500WoodToday at work I saw a 50 euros note that had been stamped with something that looks like a tiny red eagle :Any idea what it could mean ? Is it a code for something ? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341251#Comment_341251Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:38:13 -0500FlabyoI know some shops use anti-counterfeit pens and ink to check large denomination banknotes, I guess there could be a stamp version of that. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341255#Comment_341255Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:38:41 -0500FlxzrWell, I don't know what it's about but this site has loads of images of things stamped onto euro notes:

http://home.wanadoo.nl/wasmyweb/ebt/fotogallery/stempels_klein.htm

with links to eurobilltracker.com, which makes me think it's maybe some sort of tracking thing, like putting rings on birds. Or maybe they're just discussing what it is too. Little of it seems to be in English.

Oh, I just noticed the "english" link at the top. Apparently they're put on by money changers once they've verified it's a real note. That's about the least exciting theory I can imagine... :(

If you search for "red eagle on 50 euro" you should be able to find the same stamp as in your image. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341259#Comment_341259Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:00:45 -0500WoodOh well, One day i'll uncover a real world-domination conspiracy. One day... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341263#Comment_341263Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:54:46 -0500ArgosASK WHITECHAPEL -- the You Can Haz Help Now thread (Closes 21st October)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341342#Comment_341342
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=341342#Comment_341342Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:42:56 -0500Purple WyrmI seem to recall we have a couple of Melbournites here...

All of a sudden I'm going to Melbourne for work this weekend. In between various commitments I'm going to have most of Saturday free. What would you recommend as must sees for an introverted nerd visiting your fair city for the first time in 20 years?

(I'm staying near Albert Park and will be relying on public transport to get around)

A friend of mine had a simple meme that I'm trying to recreate as a Tumblr post: The NIN Pretty Hate Machine relationship test. The concept is simple - there are 10 songs on Pretty Hate Machine (first release). You and your potential partner each total up how many songs you personally identify with on the album. Then you compare scores to determine the percentage likelihood of your relationship being doomed.

Unfortunately, I don't understand stats. There are two potential dimensions of analysis: ratio, and points. If you have a PHM score of 1 and your partner has a PHM score of 10, that's a .1 ratio and easy to express. However, if you identify with 5 and your partner identifies with 5, compared to a couple where both identify with 10, those are both 1.0 ratios. So the total score should also factor in as a dimension of analysis - a 10/10 PHM score with 20 PHM points total is MUCH more doomed in a Sid and Nancy way than a 1/1 score and 2 points total.

I'm completely drawing a blank on how to express this properly in a simple easy to understand Tumblr level scale. The Doomedness depends on both the ratio and the point score. I'm guessing I really need to do it as a graph or scatter chart? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342014#Comment_342014Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:25:35 -0500256However...

Isn't there a third variable here? If Person A likes 5 tracks, and Person B likes 5, should we not be taking into account the overlap of those two numbers? If both A and B identify with the same five tracks, that seems a potentially very different situation to if they each identify with a different half.

This quantity ("collisions"), equal to the number of tracks appearing on both A and B's lists, could be shown by intensity of the rectangle's shading.

So the worst case scenario for a PHM visualization would be a perfect square (ratio 1, score 10) of pure black (10 collisions).

Or something. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342105#Comment_342105Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:48:02 -0500Steve Toase
Bit of an odd one. I'm trying to find writers who were blind early enough to not have visual metaphor in their style, so putting more emphasis on the other senses when they describe the world.To be clear I'm trying to find blind writers rather than just blind characters written by sighted writers imagining how blind people experience the world. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342109#Comment_342109Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:41:13 -0500Jason A. QuestASK WHITECHAPEL -- the You Can Haz Help Now thread (Closes 21st October)http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342247#Comment_342247
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342247#Comment_342247Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:47:52 -0500curbHey folks, I've had the following line stuck in my head, and I can't remember what it's from. I'm thinking TV or film, but it could be from anything. The line is, IIRC:

"That strange sense of euphoria that accompanies a bout of vomiting".

Any ideas? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342253#Comment_342253Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:05:35 -0500Warped SavantI recognize it to so but I seem to remember it from a book... I'll let it stew around for a little while in my brain and see what it comes up with. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342259#Comment_342259Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:40:27 -0500WoodI'm plannng a trip to India next february. Current plans are to fly to mumbai (Bombay) and head south towards the Kerala. Anybody has any recommendations and/or tips regardings things to see / to do / to avoid ? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342293#Comment_342293Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:27:18 -0500TFFuck, I know it... fuck ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342295#Comment_342295Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:41:14 -0500LittlepurplegothI've spent the last couple of days attempting to learn to do a beehive or similar... just not getting anywhere (lots of videos watched, hair has been brushed out soooo many times to start again, its not clean so not that) I have really long hair but its quite fine... (and my arms ache now :-( )

Thoughts, hints, tips? Help... thinking I might just resort back to using extensions again, but was hoping to not have a ton of extra weight to cart around whilst stage managing tomorrow night :-( ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342325#Comment_342325Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:34:55 -0500256I have this feeling that it's from Bill Bryson. Did a bit of googling in an attempt to confirm that, and failed, but that's my hunch. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342441#Comment_342441Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:51:52 -0500chris murtaghHi whitechapelers

A lot of you seem to be artists I was wondering if you have ever found any good books or resources to help sell paintings for a living. There seem to be a fair few self help books knocking about but they all seem pretty suspect to me. So I was wondering if you have any advice or if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342492#Comment_342492Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:13:24 -0500Kay OrchisonI've been thinking a lot about that one. I basically have about 12 months to start making a serious income or I'm going to have to give up my studio and practice and go get a job.

I've got a lot of different strategies, not sure if any of them will work or not, but I figure it's best to keep my bets hedged. I'll see if I can formulate them into a brisk paragraph. Probably be good discipline anyway, clarity of goals and all that.

Let me think on it and I'll get back to you.

In the meantime, here's a standardised hashtag. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342531#Comment_342531Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:58:38 -0500Rootfireember-the books I've relied on when selling and trying to get sold are the Graphic Artist's Guild Pricing & Ethical Guidelines, as well as the book How to survive & prosper as an artist without selling your soul. Also: Contracts. Do not work for anyone without a contract. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342549#Comment_342549Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:27:06 -0500Jason A. QuestGood, sound boilerplate contracts aren't too hard to find on the internet. But even if you don't want to do that, at least sit down and write out what you and they agreed to: "I will produce a work of art within this timeframe to these specifications. They will pay $X for it (Y% in advance, the rest on completion). [They/I] (pick one) will own the work, but [I/they] will have the right to do A and B with it." Then both sign it. That will avoid a whole lot of disputes based on misunderstandings, and if a dispute happens anyway: yes, a simple contract like this is enforceable in court. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342555#Comment_342555Mon, 22 Oct 2012 21:12:54 -0500glukkake
Far as quick and easy contracts: http://www.amazon.com/Business-Legal-Forms-Artists-Edition/dp/1581154283/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1350964749&sr=8-4&keywords=business+legal+forms this. This series of books forever that also come in specialty flavours like illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, etc. It was so essential for me when I first went freelance.

The rest of my knowledge comes from 4 years art school, 5 years working in a fine art gallery.

Because really, once you have your art thing down (style, mediums, workflow), what you honestly need is to get proper business/marketing sense. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342557#Comment_342557Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:44:53 -0500FlabyoThis all applies to independent game dev as well. The main advice I've had from friends who've done that and done well is always 'get your legal side straight, get clear contracts for everything'.

There's been a pretty high profile Kickstarter blow-up this week in gaming because the project no longer has any coders to work on it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342584#Comment_342584Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:13:29 -0500chris murtaghthanks

will look into these books ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342589#Comment_342589Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:57:42 -0500Steve Toase
Cheers Jason, it is proving a bit of a challenge to find, especially any who were blind before the visual metaphors would have started to be formed. I'll keep on trying. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342598#Comment_342598Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:40:52 -0500StotoNot exactly what you're after, Steve, but the latest episode of Radiolab might give you some inspiration. Two blind guys discuss how they 'see' the world. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342617#Comment_342617Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:39:44 -0500Steve Toase
Thanks for that. It was very useful, particularly the part where John Hull talks about his grandson. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10848&Focus=342786#Comment_342786Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:16:31 -0500Kosmopolit
James Holman may be relevant here.

Jason Roberts' book about Holman "A Sense of the World" is great because not only is it a biography of an extraordinary individual it covers the contemperary debate about whether Holman had really experienced Fernando Po; South Africa; Siberia etc if he hadn't seen those places and Holman's responses to his critics. ]]>